On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:38:51PM -0700, Cleaver, Japheth wrote:
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[mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org] On
> Behalf Of Christian Horn
> Subject: Re: cobbler with no local mirroring?
>
> We also mirror ourself and let cobbler just work on that.
> For it to manage pxefiles etc. it has to know about vmlinuz/initrd of the
> distros thou, manage profiles.
> I am not sure what funktionality you would like to get from cobbler without
> having pxe/dhcp-management - and for this cobbler needs to know about the
> distro/profile objects.
>
> Christian
Sorry to resurrect a thread from a while ago, but I'm dealing with the
same issue here. We've got a nice fat internal mirror with plenty of
resources. We added a repo using --available-as [..]
Even if we have to specify the location for each distro manually still,
I'm fine with that... but I'd like to be able to specify a URL here (in
lieu of an Absolute path) and have cobbler simply pull that down as
it's doing its sync --
e.g.,
http://rhel.mirrors.example.net/5.90Server/i386/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
Considered simply mounting the distro as offered by the remote server via
nfs onto the cobbler-box?
If the remote box only offers port80-services even offering the distro
also as webdav and mounting it on the cobbler-box could work.
Christian